Optimal Riemannian metric for a volumorphism and a mean ergodic theorem in complete global Alexandrov nonpositively curved spaces

DOI10.1090/CONM/584/11593MaRDI QIDQ5265429zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tony Liimatainen

Publication date 28 July 2015

Published in Analysis, Geometry and Quantum Field Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0368

zbMATH Keywords

complete global Alexandrov nonpositive curvature spaceRiemannian metricSobolev class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Ergodic theory of linear operators (47A35) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58C30) Manifolds of mappings (58D15) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17)

Abstract: In this paper we give a natural condition for when a volumorphism on a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ is actually an isometry with respect to some other, optimal, Riemannian metric $h$. We consider the natural action of volumorphisms on the space $M_m{u}^s$ of all Riemannian metrics of Sobolev class $H^s$, $s>n/2$, with a fixed volume form $mu$. An optimal Riemannian metric, for a given volumorphism, is a fixed point of this action in a certain complete metric space containing $M_m{u}^s$ as an isometrically embedded subset. We show that a fixed point exists if the orbit of the action is bounded. We also generalize a mean ergodic theorem and a fixed point theorem to the nonlinear setting of complete global Alexandrov nonpositive curvature spaces.

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